MES Product Owner

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Product Owner to lead Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), accountable for shaping product direction and ensuring delivery outcomes connect to business priorities. This role works with cross-functional teams to build scalable MES capabilities that improve reliability, adoption, and continuous improvement across manufacturing facilities.

Based in Green Bay, WI in an onsite capacity three days per week, you will own the product vision, manage the roadmap and backlog, and coordinate delivery across teams using Agile practices and Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the MES product vision, lifecycle strategy, roadmap, and backlog aligned to manufacturing, business, and digital marketing strategies
• Lead cross-functional delivery with Business Analysts and developers to deliver high-value digital solutions
• Partner with Operations, Capability Leaders, Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, Digital Manufacturing, IT, and vendors to identify opportunities, prioritize investment, and drive measurable business outcomes
• Own backlog prioritization by balancing business value, user feedback, support needs, and technical improvements
• Drive product delivery by managing dependencies and removing barriers across multiple teams
• Lead product discovery and engage frontline users to identify opportunities that improve manufacturing execution and operational performance
• Manage feature rollout, including user adoption, training, and enterprise change management activities
• Monitor product health, adoption, and business outcomes while driving continuous improvement and value realization
• Communicate roadmap progress, priorities, risks, and results to business and Digital Manufacturing leadership

Requirements

• Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Delivery Lead, or similar role delivering digital products and business outcomes
• Experience supporting manufacturing, operations, maintenance, reliability, quality, or environmental processes
• Experience working with Agile delivery teams and multi-team environments
• Experience aligning stakeholders and driving decisions across business and technical organizations
• Experience prioritizing competing work requests based on business value and organizational objectives
• Experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs, and stakeholder expectations
• Willingness to travel up to 15%
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

Technologies

• Azure DevOps

Our Team

The Manufacturing Execution team delivers digital solutions that enable safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing operations across Georgia-Pacific facilities. The team focuses on building and scaling manufacturing execution technologies to help operators, technicians, and leaders execute standard work consistently, improve decision-making, and support operational excellence.

Working closely with operations leaders, manufacturing capability teams, and technology partners, the team ensures solutions integrate with core manufacturing systems and align with Georgia-Pacific’s broader digital manufacturing and smart factory strategy to create long-term business value across the manufacturing network.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Industrial Technology, Operations, or a related field
• Experience in manufacturing with an understanding of manufacturing execution, operational processes, and continuous improvement practices
• Experience using Azure DevOps (or similar tools) to manage backlogs, epics, features, user stories, dependencies, and delivery status
• Experience supporting UAT, adoption planning, training content, rollout readiness, or site hypercare for manufacturing applications
• Experience leading cross-functional alignment through facilitation and influence, translating business requirements and technical constraints into measurable value

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, ADD, disability
• Retirement
• Paid vacation/time off
• Educational assistance
• Infertility assistance
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance